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You can see why Portsmouth have been struggling. They were very poor in the first half and we were relatively comfortable going into HT. The second half was shocking, and the worry is always that we’ll concede.

Results when we’ve scored first: W 5 D 3 L 4 Of those 12 games, we’ve only scored further goals in 3 of them.

He costs too much and criticised RG and VI for getting rid of JE.

Poor, poor... Perhaps Val should delegate substitutions / tactical changes to someone else. Between the manager and flooding we are literally chucking ourselves into League 1. Really poor.

This alone should get the manager sacked. We're lucky we hit Southampton and Leicester before they got their acts together or we'd already be losing ground.

Maybe the rivalry hasn’t reached St Helens, or what it means, but that lot losing, losing well, gives me immense pleasure, regardless of the shit show at Ewood.

Let’s not lose sight of the root cause of the rot.

The TEAM is unlikeable- there is nothing to like about this team, hard to get behind, often let fans down

I’m sorry Val, your player, your squad selection. And horrible man management - publicly throwing players (however sh***t) under the bus. The whole setup is so amateurish - board of directors, CEO (whoops), manager etc etc. Lega Nazionale Dilettanti next for the lot of them.

I’m amazed he’s come out saying that. Yes, De Neve is an absolutely dross footballer, genuinely not sure he’d look good in league 1….BUT…..YOU are the one who continues to play him Ismael, so mentioning 2nd, 3rd time for mistakes… just reflects terribly on you. Bad tactical manager, and looks like a bad man manager too

The problem clearly is the downgrading which leads to lack of consistency. Look at the goals conceded recently and most of them are easily identifiable bad mistakes. The two today are De Neve losing his man and Ribero / Pears inexplicably not stopping the corner. Oxford was McLaughlin (I think) stupidly heading it into his own are instead of clearing it. Ipswich was Miller just not getting near a 40 yard punt forward. QPR was De Neve just watching his man for 20 seconds before the ball came in. Theres only the Wrexham one where you can’t allocate clear blame.

It was terrible defending by De Neve but he should be even more concerned with the piss poor overall performance against one of the worst teams in the league. You can't expect to get a result while playing like we did today.

I was on and I can believe that figure !

We had one of those about 10 months ago. But of course, he was far too ambitious for this lot.

I often think managers unfairly get praise and blame based on professional player’s performances, so think asking for a manager to be sacked is the easy solution for fans. However in this case I think it’s due. The “list” of referring decisions, throwing Carter under the bus for injuries, the whitewashing poor performances with “advanced statistics” and now singling out a player for the same mistakes when you keep selecting said player is not the type of leadership that a side fighting relegation needs. These are all excuses to give the appearance things are not as bad as they are. Public comments should be about the side working to improve, areas of improvement, etc. feels more like a captain of a sinking ship passing blame so he can get another boat to captain.

What we going to do about it? Are we going to sit back and let these chicken farmers win!

All you have to do is ask yourself which of our new signings would have been starting games for us 12 months ago. Or, which of these would be starting every single game for us now; Travis, Dolan, Brittain, Hyam, Batth. We’ve downgraded in every single department, with the possible exception of striker, where we only really had Gueye last season (who is awful). Gudjohnsen has at least scored a few goals. We’ve also downgraded in the dugout. 13th December 2024. 5th place, 19 games, 34 points. 13th December 2025. 20th place, 20 games, 22 points.

A great little tactic to head off the sack maybe. If in the unlikely event they did remove him it certainly wouldn't be until after the window.

Has been playing as the lone forward in a 4-2-3-1 for the past 2 months Was playing as part of a strike partnership in a 3-5-2 for the first part of the season under the previous manager I thought I would ask in their forum how they think he is getting on

And Hemmings clan have issued another 5 million to pay their bills which might suggest they'll invest in Jan.

I think what you are describing is poor footballers. It makes their footballing skills unlikeable but not them as people. That’s just overly harsh.

Former Bolton player and…… If you know, you know.

He possibly should forgo managing all together. He seems to make the selections based on what wages and transfers. Cantwell could be player/captain/manager…think of the wages we’d save!

This is a league where Preston are 3rd, and we can't beat any of the worst teams in it.

I would be amazed if this team gets 51 points. Graham , Conway ,Lenihan and a younger Gallagher was more useful . The above 4 would walk into our team now . Bennett ,Evans probably too but not sure how many game they played ..